A woman escaped serious injury after the car she was travelling in hit a wall and overturned.

The woman, in her 20s, was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital after the accident in Dormanstown. Fire crews called to the scene of the smash, at the junction between Bennison Crescent and South Avenue, helped the woman from the car at about 5.55pm yesterday.

A brigade spokesman said: "The car - I believe it was a Vauxhall Astra - hit a wall and overturned at a bend."

He added that the man who was driving got himself out and was not injured. The woman's injuries were not serious, he said.